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PhotoShop Toolbox Help?

Okay, I used PhotoShop Elements 2.0 last night, everything fine, did some work saved it, shut it down...now today I open PhotoShop elements, open a picture and suddendly I cannot successfully select a tool from the Toolbox. I have selected: Magic Wand, Crop, Paint Fill, they all appear to select okay but when I return the cursor to the picture all I get is the 'Hand Tool' icon and it won't let me do anything.

What is going wrong and how can I fix it? As far as I know I have not changed any settings, and all my udates are installed. I have tried closing and opening the program, but the problem remains...

Please help, this is vital

You are using a really old version of Elements so remembering what may work for your version is going to be tough.

Try these things:

1. Hit the spacebar.

or

2. Try resetting the preferences. You may have to look this up in your help file. Most versions you do this by holding down the ALT + CTRL + SHIFT keys when you start Photoshop.

or

3. Are you working in 32bit depth? If you are, then change to 16 or 8bit. (if these are even options in Elements 2, I can't remember)

Have also seen some posts concerning this:

4. The possibility of a bad font is a potential problem (and usually happens with font collectors who install every font they can find on the web).

Hope one of these helps.